Book Burro is a Firefox extension that adds quick & easy comparison shopping ability for all your book buying needs. (via Ubuntu Essentials)

“New Scientist has discovered that Pentagon’s National Security Agency, which specialises in eavesdropping and code-breaking, is funding research into the mass harvesting of the information that people post about themselves on social networks. And it could harness advances in internet technology - specifically the forthcoming “semantic web” championed by the web standards organisation W3C - […]

The Porter County (Indiana) Public
Library System recently revised its access policies with respect to
homeless people.

Homeless children will not be allowed to check out material from [the]
northwestern Indiana library system, which also has limited adults living
in shelters to taking out three books at a time …

The policy allows adults living in shelters to receive a […]

This isn’t exactly a “fun” link but this photo has been making the rounds of various library blogs (not sure where I first saw it so I can’t give credit unfortunately)

Here’s the photo. Flickr has a few others plus some discussion you might want to check out as well.

J.

Spanish Copyleft Foundation to launch

The Copyleft Foundation is created in order to defend and stimulate artistic, cultural and scientific production under copyleft licenses.

We believe that copyleft licenses are those which allow creators a greater control over their arts, investigations and projects and a more reasonable economic compensation for their work, as well as allowing the […]

CALL FOR PAPERS - INFORMATION FOR SOCIAL CHANGE

INFORMATION FOR SOCIAL CHANGE (ISC)
ISSN 1364-694X

The summer 2007 issue of the online journal Information for Social Change (ISC)
will focus on the urgent theme of library and information workers as political
actors in times of war, civil war, military occupation, and social conflicts
worldwide.

ISC seeks both contemporary and historical submissions that […]

A Flickr photoset of the things a library volunteer finds on the book cart or stuffed in books in the prison where they volunteer:

Jail finds - a photoset on Flickr (via Librarian.net)

Business Ethics magazine has released their list of 2006’s Top 100 Corporate Citizens. I’m not an expert in who’s good and who’s not so good but found a couple names on the list that were a bit surprising to me. (via Kottke)

It’s also interesting to compare this list to Fortune’s recently released […]

Reading about the recent arrests of 17 men who were allegedly plotting terrorist attacks in Southwest Ontario, this brief line by RCMP assistant commissioner Mike McDonell at the end of the article caught my eye:

“They can be inspired through the use of the Internet, though library, through books and through their own proselytizing to […]

Trademarks not unassailable, judges decide in two cases